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Where does the story take place?
A reclusive naturalist follows a cryptogram from a found parchment into the South Carolina woods in search of pirate treasure.
A solitary traveler watches a fairy circle a divided island as sunset turns the scene into a vision of aging and death.
In a snowbound military hut, a major’s seemingly casual questions expose the dangerous private anxieties beneath his authority.
Nick Adams walks away from a burned town into the Michigan wilderness, building a camp and fishing the river one careful act at a time.
Two young friends race down an Alpine mountain, then linger over wine as marriage, school, and the end of freedom wait for them below.
A boy accompanies his doctor father across a dark lake to help a woman in labor, entering a night of pain, birth, and adult mystery.
After being thrown from a freight train, Nick Adams finds food and company beside a campfire—but the prizefighter waiting there is not safe.
A doctor’s claim to some driftwood is challenged by the lumberman who knows exactly where the logs came from.
On a moonlit fishing trip, Nick and Marjorie circle the quiet truth that their relationship has stopped being what it was.
A young Hungarian revolutionary crosses postwar Italy with no money, a party credential, and an unwavering faith in the world revolution.
In a Corsican mountain pass, a traveller hears how a timid orphan became the island’s most feared outlaw.
A traveler in the Auvergne keeps meeting a solitary old woman whose grief finally breaks through her reserve.
A self-assured traveler plots a conquest on the road to Corsica, certain he has read his companion correctly.
At a desolate tarn, a boatman shows a traveler the blood-red cross marking where the Wandering Jew supposedly died.
A seasoned traveller argues that real fear comes not from known danger, but from what the mind cannot explain.
A midnight train encounter leads two travelers through unsettling accounts of the dread inspired by things not yet understood.
When distant Corsica appears across the evening sea, an old traveler recalls a noblewoman who gave up society for lasting love.
A hunter in a frozen marsh witnesses a wild bird's devotion and finds his sport transformed by the sight.
A forester’s fearless daughter faces six lost Prussian soldiers alone in a snowbound forest house.
An old colonial officer recalls a seven-man punitive expedition whose celebrated success depended on ruthless deception and force.
A young wife returns from Switzerland with a confession about one moonlit night beside Lake Lucerne.
A reclusive count explains why a traveling mother, her daughter, and a different grateful companion visit him every July.
A visitor wins the trust of a hermit whose retreat on a southern hill began with one devastating discovery in Paris.
A general challenges a dinner party’s easy use of the word “horrible” with two memories of people stripped of humanity.
